Almost two months after the devastating explosion in Beirut's port, the creative community is continuing to band together to support the Lebanese capital city. A charity auction has sprung out of Los Angeles and Beirut, organized by the Franco-Lebanese film-maker Sabine El Gemayel d’Herbécourt and the Beirut-based communications consultant Mira Hawa, which includes work by 45 artists mostly from the two cities. All the funds raised from the Artists with Beirut sale will go directly to the Beirut Emergency Fund 2020 to be administered to non-profit, non-governmental organizations in Lebanon.
Once a place where sea, desert, and palm groves coexisted in rare harmony, Tunisia’s Gabès Oasis stands today as one of the world’s most fragile cultural-environmental sites. At its heart is artist Mohamed Amine Hamouda, whose ecological practice offers a form of resistance—one built on memory, materials, and a return to ancestral knowledge.